Two peregrine falcon chicks fledge from downtown nest box

Two peregrine falcon chicks born in a nest high atop a downtown Boise office tower fledged this morning, the Peregrine Fund reports, testing their wings between 6 and 7 a.m. today. The young birds are doing well, and a third is thinking about following them. Anna Ravegum Taafe of Idaho Fish & Game reported that the two fledglings are perched safely on tall buildings downtown, and their watchful dad is nearby. One made it to a building a block away that's higher than the nest box at One Capital Center. You can check out the nest box on web-cam here, but there may be little activity there, as the third chick is out on a wide ledge, where the young birds have been flapping their wings and taking short hops to experiment with flying. A "fledge-watch" team is prepared to rescue any fledglings that land on the ground or in an unsafe location.